The Making of a Masterpiece: 1984 West Side Story Recording Sessions
It was September of 1984. The New York classical music scene was abuzz with word of a happening -- not for the general public -- in the recording studios on West 44th Street.
It was September of 1984. The New York classical music scene was abuzz with word of a happening -- not for the general public -- in the recording studios on West 44th Street.
Bernstein was a conductor, a pianist, a composer, a lyricist, a teacher, a poet, a writer, a father, a friend, a colleague, an activist, a humanist, and a concerned citizen. He was a man of his amazing times, whose echo still resounds, perhaps more loudly today than ever before.
